Homestead Happenings

“It’s a great treat to be at home and to have had Christmas here. . .  Thursday a.m. we pulled down the blinds and had the tree. It was pi...

The shops were beautiful with all sorts of gay and clever Christmas displays. The markets were a dream of luscious foods, and I wished for ...

  [A Hallmark card from open stock, c. 1970]

Aunt [Bertha, Ina’s sister] helped me out by dressing a fat young rooster and bringing it ready for the roaster. She also insisted on making...

I think the best time I ever had working for that especial time was that very first Christmas “on the hill” [Gilbert / Russell Ridge] when t...

As we became teen-agers, we took an active part in Christmas. My brother and I went out on the hill and brought home a tree. I helped deco...

Well, to continue and go on, after one late dinner I made donuts for I must have fresh donuts for Christmas, and you know “do-nuts and coffe...

“Your holly and candles were a treat and have served more than once. I have about half of the candles left on the mantel. They are such a pr...

We used the holly and silvered sprays in the decorations. The holly makes the very prettiest I think. We used the silvered bull [pine] sprig...

Oh, yes, I, too, read A Christmas Carol. It was reprinted in Coronet magazine and I found I had forgotten most of it. Vance Dobson, Decembe...

Well, I’m so bedeviled and bemused with everything around here that this evening I trimmed the Aladdin lamp on the library table [in the li...

The moon was shining in brightly and lighting the tree and everything else in sight. Ina Dobson on Christmas Eve, 1932 Of all the consi...